The Meadow-Brook Girls Under Canvas; Or, Fun and Frolic in the Summer Camp

s for the moment. Tommy's cries of alarm however, soon brought Harrie

, Tommy! W

he cot of her companion and threw herself fu

n in her great fright, knew at once did not belong to her companion. "Get out of here!" The words were acco

he screamed.

l the guardian," declared the girl in

thing growl,"

rriet "I don't wonder you heard growls.

e girl on the cot. Then sudde

r Harriet nor Tommy had seen her before. Tommy sat in the middle of the floor th

laimed the guardian. "Miss Kidde

some difficulty with one of

ia. "I don't know what for, but she

not?" asked the guardian, turnin

eadow-Brook Girls,

rs to be th

my friend. What wa

of my bed. It thounded like a wild animal," explained Grace wide-eyed

were dreaming. Did y

fter midnight," e

into bed, at once, girls. I am

ace Thompson," introduced Harriet

ardian. "I trust you will be quiet, Miss Thompson. Remember you a

The guardian tucked her in

mp on me again," warn

Harriet. "I am sure Grace is

said Grace. "But what wat

he girls slept soundly until late in the night, when all those in that part of the camp were again aroused by a series of piercing screams and cries

ians neared the scene they were alarmed to discover that th

ched on the ground a few feet outside the entrance to the tent She was screa

op it!" comm

ll you kindly assist your friend in? Miss Partridge tells me this young woman raised a disturbance once before this even

d Cora Kidder likewise were sitting on the edges of their cots. The

t terrible thing,

But tell me, what you think yo

w it. I did thee it,"

ow you were," said Harriet, but T

door. Then-then-then-he thtepped up on the cot and walked on me with

" smiled Mi

the pink elephant put hith trunk right around my neck.

no mark there, dea

like a bear all the time. Then he carried me right out doorth and dropped me on the ground. I hea

aughing. "And what is more and worse still, you have eaten too heavily.

riumphantly. This was something of a poser. Harriet said Grace did

s?" questioned the guardian

atever," rep

st sounded right here in the tent, then when I had sat up on my cot I discovered that it was outside. I hurried out th

ill have any further attacks of nightmare to-night. If she does, of course we shall have to remove her to

the tent, then retired leaving the girls again in darkness. Tommy

xchanged between Patricia and Cora. Harriet recalled a swift look that

s having had the nightmare. Tommy had only herself to blame for that. Still, how did she get outside? That is what I should l

without further interruption. She was awakened by the morning bell. Patricia and Cora

d. Harriet went over and shook her until she was wide

aking her morning toilet. But she protested with every move she made. Just before the fifteen minute time allowance had expired, the two girls stepped out into a glorious forest morning. Great trees towered ab

arriet. "Oh, isn't it

n they danced merrily. All at once, Grace raised her

rah,

rah

ook, Mead

hboo

houldn't have done t

cry; then they began laughing when they saw Harriet in her torn

his is?" reminded one girl who seemed

l thome more after I have my breakfatht," declared Tommy with an

ious speaker. "You would do well not to forget it, unless yo

tell you, Tommy?"

op the birdth from making a noithe on Thunday, too?" retorted Grace as the tw

rriet recognized as belonging to Patricia Scott. "I should not th

or which Harriet was thankful. She knew that Tommy would have resented the remark and made a scene there